Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-01

with marble floors and Italian top tables
and chased ice-coolers, in the strychnine
and the logwood, and the tartaric acid
and the nux Vomics that go to make W
our 'pure" American drinks. 1 looked
with wondering eyes on the heidelberg
tun." 1t IS the great liquor vat of Ger
many, which is said to hold eight hundred
hogsheads OF wine, and only three times
IN hundred years has it been filed.
But, as l stood aud looked at it, said to
myself: "That is nothing-eight hundred
| nogsheads. Why our American vat holds
100000 barrels of strong drinks, and
we keep 800, 900 men with nothing to do
but to see that it IS filed" On, to
attack IniS great monster of intemper-
ance, and the kindred monsters of fraud
and uncleanness requires you to rally all
! your Christian courage. Through the
press, through the pulpit, through the
platform you must assault it. Would TO
God that all our American Christians
would 0snd together, mot for crack Drained
tansticism, but for holy Christian reform.
l think it was in 1898 that there went out
from Lucknow, Indis, under the sovereign
the greates4 hunting party that was ever
projected. There were 10000 armed
men IN that hunting party. There were
camels, and horses, and elephants. On
some, princes rode, and royal ladies,
under exquisite housings, and 500 cool
les waited upon the train, and the
desolate places OF India were invaded bv
this excursion, and the rhinocerous, and
deer, and elephant, fell under the stroke
of the
SABRE AND BULLET.
After while the party brought back
trophies worth so, 900 rupees, having left
the wilderness OF India CHASTITY with the
slain bodies Of wild beasts. Would to
God that instead of here and there q
strsggler going out to fight these great
monsters of iniquity in our country, the
million membership of our churches
would band together and hew in twain
these great crimes that make the lsnd
frIghttul with their rosr, and are fatten-
Ing upon the bodies and souls Of immor-
tai men. Who is ready for such q party
as that? Who will be 8 mighty hunter
for the Lord?
l remark again: If you want to be sue
cesStul II spiritual hunting, you need not
only to bring down the game, but bring
it in. think one Of the most beautiful
pictures Of Thorwaldsen is his "Au-
tumn." 1t represents q sportsman COM
t..
He has staff over his shoulder, and on
the other end OF that staff ere huag rab-
bit and brace of birds. Every Lunter
brings home the game. No one would
think of bringing down q reindeer CT
whipping up d stream for trout, and let
ting them lie in the woods. At eventide
the camp is adorned with the treasures Of
the forest-beak, and fin, and antler.
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souls, not only bring them down under
the arrow Of the Gospel, but bring them
into the Church o. God, the grand home
and encsmpmeDt we have pitched this
side the skies. Fetch them in, do not let
them lie out in the open field. They need
our prayers, and sYmpathies, and help.
That Is the meaning of the Church Of
GOd-help o We hunters for the Lord! not
only bring down the game, but bring
it in.
If Mithridate5 liked hunting so we'll
that for seven years he never went
indoors, what enthusiasm ought we TO
have VINO are hunting for immortal souls, |
If Donitian prac.iced archery until he
could stand 4 nov down in the Roman |
amphitheater: with hana oUa, fha
fingers Outstretched, and then the Kl1.,
BETWEEN THE FINGERS
without wounding them, to what drill |
and what practice ought not we to sub |
ject ourselves in order to become /
spiritual arChers and "mighty hunters |
before the Lord" But let me say, you
Will never work any better shau you |
pray. The old aTChers took the bow, put |
one end Of it down beside the foot, ele-
cd no ~ nd bo IL,
That the bow should be lust the size of !
the archer; if il were just his size, then
ne would go into the battle with conf
1enCe. Let me say that your power to
project good in the world will correspond |
exactly 10 your own spiritual stature. In
other words, the first thing, in prepare
ion for Christian work, is personal con-
'ecration.
Oh, for a closer walk " ith God,
calm and heavenly frame,
y light to shine upon the road
That leads me to the Lamb.
| am sure that there are some here who
It some time have been hit by the Gospel
rrow. You felt the wound of that con-
fiction, and you plunged into the world
leeper; Just as the stag, when the hounds
re after it, plunges into ScroOn lake, eX-
)eCting in that way to escape. Jesus
;hrist is on your track to-day, impenitent
nan; not in wrath, but in mercy. Oh, We II
hased and painting souls! here is the
tresm Of Gods mercy and salvation,
where you may cool your thirst. Stop ,
hat chase of sin to-day. BY the red ,
ountain that leaped from the heart of my :
ord, bid you stop. There is mercy for
o1-mercy that pardons; mercy that
eals; everlasting mercy. Is there in all Y
mis- house anyone who can refuse the J
fer that comes from the heart of the I
ying Son of God2
There is forest in Germany, g place
hey call the "deer Ieap''-two crags
bout eighteen YARDS apart, between L
earfuI chasm. This is called the "deer
esp" because once q hunter was on the
rack of deer; it came to one of these
rags; there was no escape for it from
he pursuit of the hunter, and in utte4
espaIr it gathered itself up and in the
cath agony attempted
TO JUMP ACROSS.
II course it fell, and was dashed on the =
ocks far beneath. Here is g path to
eaven. 1t is plain-it is safe. Jesus
marks it out for every man to walk in.
tut here is q man who says: 'I won't
7alk in the path; 1 will take my own
7aV." He comes on up until he cra9r
ronts the chasm that divides his al i
rom heaven. Now his last Lour =.
as come, and he resolves that
e will leap that chasm, from the ! 4
Fights of earth to the heights Of Z
eaven Stand back, now, and give him =
Ill swing, for no soul ever did that slse4
assfuIly Let him try. Jump! JgMp!
.e misses the mark, and he goes down, q